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24 <refentry id="shutdown">
27 <title>shutdown</title>
28 <productname>systemd</productname>
32 <contrib>Developer</contrib>
33 <firstname>Lennart</firstname>
34 <surname>Poettering</surname>
35 <email>lennart@poettering.net</email>
41 <refentrytitle>shutdown</refentrytitle>
42 <manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
46 <refname>shutdown</refname>
47 <refpurpose>Halt, power-off or reboot the machine</refpurpose>
52 <command>shutdown <arg choice="opt" rep="repeat">OPTIONS</arg> <arg choice="opt">now</arg> <arg choice="opt" rep="repeat">WALL</arg></command>
57 <title>Description</title>
59 <para><command>shutdown</command> may be used to halt,
60 power-off or reboot the machine.</para>
62 <para>The first argument should be the string
63 <command>now</command> which however is ignored by
64 this implementation. Optionally, this may be followed
65 by a wall message to be sent to all logged-in users
66 before going down.</para>
70 <title>Options</title>
72 <para>The following options are understood:</para>
76 <term><option>--help</option></term>
78 <listitem><para>Prints a short help
79 text and exits.</para></listitem>
83 <term><option>-H</option></term>
84 <term><option>--halt</option></term>
86 <listitem><para>Halt the machine.</para></listitem>
90 <term><option>-P</option></term>
91 <term><option>--poweroff</option></term>
93 <listitem><para>Power-off the
94 machine (the default).</para></listitem>
98 <term><option>-r</option></term>
99 <term><option>--reboot</option></term>
101 <listitem><para>Reboot the
102 machine.</para></listitem>
106 <term><option>-h</option></term>
108 <listitem><para>Equivalent to
109 <option>--poweroff</option>, unless
110 <option>--halt</option> is
111 specified.</para></listitem>
115 <term><option>-k</option></term>
117 <listitem><para>Don't halt, power-off,
118 reboot, just write wall
119 message.</para></listitem>
123 <term><option>--no-wall</option></term>
125 <listitem><para>Don't send wall
127 halt, power-off, reboot.</para></listitem>
133 <title>Exit status</title>
135 <para>On success 0 is returned, a non-zero failure
136 code otherwise.</para>
142 <para>This is a legacy command available for
143 compatibility only.</para>
147 <title>See Also</title>
149 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
150 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemctl</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
151 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>halt</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
152 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>wall</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>